Stats

KB: 162, Rooms: 35, Objects: 249, Tasks: 1454, Events: 23, Characters: 23

Introduction


The first thing you become aware of upon awakening is the ground. Now this isn't anything that you haven't seen before - indeed, you've spent quite a bit of your life walking on it so it'd be true to say that you're somewhat of an expert. But usually when you see the ground first thing in the morning, it's a couple feet away from where you're lying hung over the edge of your bed.It's not fifty feet away!

You wake up quickly after that, the sudden action setting you to swinging. Swinging?

A quick peer upwards reveals the truth: you're hanging from the underside of a bridge!

You quickly get yourself under control. You are, after all, the Masked Defender, greatest super hero the world has ever seen and such minor inconveniences as waking one morning to find yourself tied by your ankles to the underside of a bridge fifty feet off the ground are nothing new. All you need to do is reach up and untie-

Ah.

Your hands are tied behind your back as well. It seems whoever hung you up here didn't intend on you getting yourself free anytime soon.

As you struggle to free yourself, you notice the sign painted on the building opposite you, a sign that makes even your super hero heart quiver with unsuppressed fear:

To ThE MASkED DeFEndER
This ear is paybak 4 all the tymes you as messed with us an broked up our milk monie rackett.

Signed - The Paper Boys

The Paper Boys, eh? Ah, so this is what that bunch of juvenile delinquents have been up to since they got out of the youth home you sent them to. Well, as soon as you get yourself free of this little trap they've dropped you in, you'll be sure and pay them a visit...